The executives told lawmakers that continued offshore exploration and drilling were essential to American oil and gas supplies and to the health of their industry, and that the spill was an aberration.
The reinforcement of a buffer has been addressed in Australia through continued offshoring and through more intense militarisation in the guise of Operation Sovereign Borders.
To be sure, American companies continue to offshore all manner of duties to other nations around the world.
So the meaningful difference and the more immediate difference is the ability, or lack thereof, to continue your offshore deferral.
The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act made it almost impossible for operators such as Radio Caroline to continue transmitting offshore and paved the way for the BBC to launch Radio 1.
Without technical assistance from Western oil and gas companies, however, Rosneft may be unable to continue its offshore exploration in the Arctic, says Heather Conley, senior vice president for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSISS).
Unless the Obama administration stands up against seismic testing, all of this will be put at risk for the chance to continue drilling offshore, a dirty practice that has inflicted too much damage on our beaches and fisheries already.
They can spend and not raise taxes so long as China finances our deficits and China finances our deficits so long as we continue to offshore our investment, research, technology, jobs and economy to China.
The economists counsel stimulation to continue the offshoring for fear that if we stop offshoring, China will retaliate by refusing to finance our deficits.
